Frequently Asked Questions

ProfHire is much more than a job board. Rather than simply a listing of job postings by various employers, ProfHire provides a range of specialized services, including pre-screening, professional development training, and personalized onboarding. More importantly, we provide a high level of security and confidential job placement with accredited colleges and universities. As a member of ProfHire, your information will be fully protected from spammers and unknown third-parties.

Currently, all of our institutions are in the United States, which means that applicants must have the right to work in the United States. Having a U.S. address is desireable. It will be up to the school if they choose to hire someone for an online course who resides outside the United States. We have plans to expand beyond the U.S.

We do not provide an orientation for individual universities; however, in the future Profhire will offer onboarding options for the universities. We are adding compliance training courses that are required by most universities, including: Sexual Harassment Training, Title IX, FERPA, and Americans with Disabilities. There will also be supplementary services and professional development that will be available to our part-time professor applicants.

We have an algorithm that helps us determine if you are qualified for a job. We present the most qualified candidates to the colleges and universities. However, qualifications vary depending on the job, so someone who would be highly qualified for one position might not be qualified for another.

This depends. We are perfecting our method of tracking applicant completion rates, and will contact you at various times, based on the information you have supplied or to request additional information. The speed and frequency with which you hear from us will also depend on the volume of applicants we receive at a given time and the requests we receive from colleges. Even if you do not hear from us, your profile may still be active and shared with employers.

We have no way of determining how long it will take for you to get a job. That depends on the needs of the college or university and if your qualifications, interests, and availability match their needs.

We provide the school with up to eight (8) applicants at a time that match their desired expertise, experience, and availability. If they are not satisfied with the initial group they will be presented with an additional eight (8) until they find the right candidate.

Salaries of part-time professors significantly vary depending on the school, location, discipline, credit hours, length of the course, preparation required, degree level of the course, your degree level, your level of expertise and experience, and your notoriety in the field. The general range is $1200 - $6000 per course.

Each school has its own evaluation process. At this time, we are not requesting copies of your student evaluations, although you may choose to share them. We will ask the school to rate your performance.

When you go to the “Upload Documents” section, you will see that there are multiple documents you can upload. Some are required for your application to move forward and be presented to the hiring institutions; these include: resume/cv, transcripts, a statement of your teaching philosophy, and references. Others are optional and will enhance your profile.

Although most colleges and universities no longer put social security number on transcripts, they still appear. Older degree transcripts will occasionally contain the SSN as a means of identification.
We do not accept altered transcripts with the exception of redacting the first five numbers of the SSN.
Here are two ways to remove the SSN:

1) Using pdf - Adobe provides a good guide for redacting information from a .pdf document Adobe Instructions

2) Tape and copy - We will accept documents that have been copied after a small strip of paper is used to cover the first five numbers of the SSN.

If you are not able to make these revisions, contact us by clicking here.

No, once you have uploaded your resume / curriculum vitae (cv) and transcripts, we will begin to present your profile to prospective employers requesting your unique skills, experience, and availability. However, if a university requires more documents such as a teaching philosophy, we will not show your portfolio to that school until you have uploaded that document. If we are made aware that your portfolio is not being presented because of missing documents, we will notify you.

The more prepared you are to teach in a specific area and the more complete your profile is, the better chance you have of being presented to employers. The other thing you can do is make sure that you have the subjects you can teach listed. If you list subjects that you do not appear to be qualified to teach, we will suspend your profile until we receive verification that you can teach those subjects.

Although ranking is not the best way to think of our matching process, you will optimize your opportunity to be presented to employers by completing your profile, supplying links, and adding any information or documents that are missing.

We review your applicant documentation, social media, resume / curriculum vitae, we check your references, verify your transcripts, credentials and licenses (if applicable) and we may have either a phone conversation or email exchange with you if we need additional information. Once a college or university shows interest in you, we may perform a background check and ensure that you have taken federal and state required compliance training.

There are three reasons we ask for links to your social media and other websites.

(1) It is now a common part of the hiring process for employers to check the presence a candidate has on the internet. No presence is neither positive nor negative. A positive presence is positive, while a significantly negative presence might prevent employers from considering you for a position.

(2) Students will frequently "Google" their instructors. Your social media presence is as relevant to students as it is for hiring organizations.

(3) Sharing your online presence gives you a chance to show your skills and expertise. Having your own website is a great way to present yourself to both colleges, universities, and to your students.

We are aware that this occurs for some applicants. Most modern cameras have a rotation sensor which writes an orientation EXIF tag into the file to tell your software how to turn the photo for display. However, there are some situations in which your photo will not be rotated properly and will display sideways. Here is how you can fix it: go to an online photo editor (we like LunaPic). Follow the instructions on the site of your choice you should be able to upload your picture right-side up with no problem. Feel free to contact us if you cannot get it to work correctly.

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. If you turn off cookies, you may still access the profhire.com site.

It is impossible to know exactly why our email went to your spam folder, but email may get through one time and then go to spam the next. The best way to prevent ProfHire email from going to your spam folder is to "whitelist" it. Whitelisting a website is fairly easy. Check out this article: Safelist Instructions

Your username is the email address that you used to originally sign-up with ProfHire. You can change your email yourself, however that will not change your username. To change your username, create a "technical issue" and provide us with your name, current user name and the user name you wish to have .

ProfHire is not a job board or applicant search engine. Because we vet and present only qualified candidates to you based on your specific needs, you must first contact us to set up your account. Simply Mail Us or call 855-776-3447.

We recruit from many sources, so that you do not have to pay for any recruiting. Our recruiting is proactive and we are constantly seeking new applicants. We post ads in multiple places as well as reaching out to highly qualified experts and professionals individually.